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Definition of Heterogamous

1. a. The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.

Definition of Heterogamous

1. Adjective. (botany) in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers ¹

2. Adjective. (biology) characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature ¹

3. Adjective. (biology) involving heterogametes in the reproductive process ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heterogamous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Heterogamous

1. Producing flowers of two or more kinds with respect to their fertile organs, for example male and female or bisexual and female. Compare: homogamous. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterogamous

Literary usage of Heterogamous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"86 species = 66'1% are autogamous as well as heterogamous. ... we note a diminution of in those which are always heterogamous, and an increase ..."

2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"In the heterogamous heads the disc-flowers are usually hermaphrodite and ... The Dahlia, which is nearly allied to the Sunflower, is properly heterogamous, ..."

3. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"Chloroplasts numerous, without pyrenoids. Sexual reproduction heterogamous. Mostly marine. Order VIII. ... or heterogamous character is known in some. ..."

4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Heads all heterogamous, with pistillate flowers very numerous in more than one series, ... E. Heads heterogamous with ligulate ray-corollas, or discoid and ..."

5. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"Heads heterogamous rarely homogamous \ fl. of disk (or rarely all the fl. ... Heads heterogamous many-fld. hemispherical; scales imbricate in several rows, ..."

6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"Sexual reproduction by means of heterogamous gametes. ... or heterogamous, sometimes simple, but more often branched. .II. ..."

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